A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars – billions upon billions of stars. Every star may be a sun to someone.
CARL SAGANOur species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
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All over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for science.
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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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The universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
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One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
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If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a percent of the contents of the greatest libraries of our time. The trick is to know which books to read.
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The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.
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The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.
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Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system with their wonder and enthusiasm for science intact.
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Your god is too small for my universe.
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An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God.
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